NSA: Please Turn off the Lights When You Leave. Nothing to See Here.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz shows how the general public can take action to truly protect their privacy using GnuPG with Evolution email. Read the details.

Mailvelope for Chrome: PGP Encrypted Email Made Easy

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz officially endorses what he deems is a truly secure, easy to use PGP email encryption program. Read the details.

Step off Microsoft's License Treadmill to FOSS Linux

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz reminds CIOs that XP Desktops destined for MS end of life support can be reprovisioned with FOSS Linux to run like brand new. Read how.

Bitcoin is NOT Money -- it's a Commodity

Linux Advocate shares news that the U.S. Treasury will treat Bitcoin as a Commodity 'Investment'. Read the details.

Google Drive Gets a Failing Grade on Privacy Protection

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz puts out a public service privacy warning. Google Drive gets a failing grade on protecting your privacy.

Email: A Fundamentally Broken System

Email needs an overhaul. Privacy must be integrated.

Opinion

Cookie Cutter Distros Don't Cut It

Opinion

The 'Linux Inside' Stigma - It's real and it's a problem.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Turn a Deaf Ear

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz reminds readers of a long ago failed petition by Mathematician Prof. Donald Knuth for stopping issuance of Software Patents.

Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Never Again

by Dietrich Schmitz

Never again.

Those two words make a pretty bold claim but I've looked at it from every technical perspective during the past two weeks of research.

If you've been looking for a solution that holds up under pressure to scrutiny, look no further.

If you've had it with feeling like you've just visited a proctologist when using the Internet, now is the time for a change.


  • Never again will your chats be wiretapped.
  • Never again will your video/audio calls be wiretapped.
  • Never again will your emails be read by third parties.
  • Never again will your emails come from someone you don't know personally (SPAM)
  • Never again will your emails be laden with trojans ready to spawn and compromise your PC
  • Never again will your innocuous file sharing with Friends be viewed by ISPs as suspect illegal sharing.


Never.  All of the above is true provided that you make one personal commitment.

Always use RetroShare.

-- Dietrich
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Dealing with SPAM

by Dietrich Schmitz


Folks, I have no choice but to treat you like children instead of adults when the level of spam gets out of hand.

Today, full moderation has been enabled and will remain so until further notice.

That means, there will be delays in processing the pending DISQUS queue.  Your post is there.  Give me time to approve it.

For those living in other far-reaching time zones, please know I like to sleep and so there will be gaps as much as eight hours before I respond to overnight comments.

If the situation changes, I'll let you know.  But for now, there are many people out there with clearly too much time on their hands and fresh minds, so moderation it will have to be.

Also, I am filtering those respondents who don't provide 'real' email addresses with their comments--that also includes individuals who insist on using anonymous temporary/expiring email addresses (typically lasting 10 minutes) so as to avoid there being an audit trail back to them.  They simply get bucketed to spam.

I apologize to the 'sincere' followers for this inconvenience.  

Thank you for your cooperation.

--Dietrich
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